Providers.

16 providers publishing API prices the bot can read, cheapest first (October 2026 data, read daily). Between them they sell 35 products in 93 prices. A provider page lists every product and plan it sells, and its free tier.

The cheapest search API today is $1 per 1,000 searches at Parallel, at 1,000 searches a month, read 21 Oct 2026.

Parallel
Parallel pricing
Own index, Answers.
prices
4
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$1
Perplexity
Perplexity pricing
Own index, Model tools.
prices
4
free tier
no
per 1,000 from
$1
DataForSEO
DataForSEO pricing
Google results.
prices
3
free tier
no
per 1,000 from
$2
Exa
Exa pricing
Own index, Answers.
prices
5
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$4
Brave Search API
Brave Search API pricing
Own index, Answers.
prices
3
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$5
Linkup
Linkup pricing
Own index, Answers.
prices
5
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$5
xAI
xAI pricing
Model tools.
prices
1
free tier
no
per 1,000 from
$5
You.com
You.com pricing
Own index, Answers.
prices
3
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$5
Tavily
Tavily pricing
Own index.
prices
11
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$8
Serper
Serper pricing
Google results.
prices
5
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$8.33
Anthropic
Anthropic pricing
Model tools.
prices
1
free tier
no
per 1,000 from
$10
OpenAI
OpenAI pricing
Model tools.
prices
2
free tier
no
per 1,000 from
$10
Google Gemini API
Google Gemini API pricing
Model tools.
prices
4
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$14
SerpApi
SerpApi pricing
Google results.
prices
9
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$25
Scrapingdog
Scrapingdog pricing
Google results.
prices
24
free tier
no
per 1,000 from
$40
SearchApi
SearchApi pricing
Google results.
prices
9
free tier
yes
per 1,000 from
$40